Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scottish pudding. Recipe: mince & season the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys etc. of a sheep or calf: put in suet, onion, oatmeal, blood; wrap and tie the mixture in the animal's stomach; boil...
Biologists of the State Medical Department of Württemberg analyzed, last week, blood samples taken from a man, a young woman, a babe. Impersonal, they reported that the man and the young woman belong to the second "blood group," while the child belongs to the fourth. Summing up, they wrote: "A child invariably inherits its blood group characteristics from one or the other parent. As, in the present case, neither the mother's nor the alleged father's blood shows the characteristics found in the child, the only conclusion possible is that parentage by the accused...
This report was accepted last week by the lower criminal court at Ellwangen, Württemberg, when it handed down for the first time a verdict based on the blood test method of determining parentage. The court, thoroughgoing, suppressed all names, to protect the honor of the man unjustly accused, then sentenced the scheming young woman to six months' imprisonment...
...Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance and Modern masters flash before the eye to the accompaniment of a symphony--multo allegro--of words...
...stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...